began to describe the book as consisting first of “a poem in heroic couplets, of nine hundred ninety-nine lines” when his white head jerked back, perplexed. Unlike the students, he had not missed the absurdity of the opening line—as if I had said that a family has nine children, all twins.引自第42页“Your favorite”? When we have only just opened the book? When it is always absurd to prejudge another’s taste? When this familiarity instantly violates the impersonal decorum? What sort of a person is this commentator引自第42页
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